This is my application essay to the University of Pennsylvania Master in Applied Positive Psychology program, which I wrote in March, 2008. In a quest to clean up files on my computer, I found it tonight and it makes me smile to know I am still on my path towards freedom. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For some time now, I have been thinking that I when my time comes, I’d like my tombstone to read, “It feels...
Be! Longing lingers long and deep, Lodged in the depths of a full heart. Absence and presence blend into one, Anticipation becomes the spiritual fusion and vision. To know one, we must know the other Nothing exists apart from another We be-long to each other. Be! by Tony Carr + Louis Alloro...
SOMO Leadership Labs launched as a social-experiment in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a magical time of synchronicity, synergy, faith, and love. The work has been in inviting people into dialogue to think about how they think. This conversation is about their own wellbeing (mind/body/spirit) with the intention that they become more effective at facilitating this conversation with others. We’ve hosted SOMO learning labs in all sorts of places--in businesses, schools, community groups, peoples’ living rooms, public parks and bars. Our first lab was on Valentine’s Day 2011 and I remember the feeling of knowing Cleveland is where I need to be...
-- and feeling soooooomo good. ...
This fall when you see geese heading south for the winter flying along in a "V" formation, you might be interested in knowing what science has discovered about why they fly that way. It has been learned that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own. People who share common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on...
THE PATH Great Doubt Who am I? Why am I here? What’s the point? Why me? How do I get out of this? Great Faith I’m here for a reason. I trust that I can learn and grow. I trust that other people are worth the struggle. I know that every situation is workable. Great Determination I’m willing to keep going. I choose to stay. I surrender to what is....
“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we...